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Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.